When Yang Xiaowu and his party returned to the ancient town, the sun was about to set. Xiangxi is really a beautiful and strange place. The moon took advantage of the setting of the sun and stole out, desperately collecting the sun's rays, like a hungry child stealing from his master's house. The people of the ancient town were also embarrassed to expose it, and they all hid back in their homes. The ancient town without people, under the afterglow of the setting sun, looks a little depressed.

Yang Xiaowu was originally worried that Lei Batian would still be in the town, but Chen Keyi said that she had never felt the evil aura, thinking that Lei Batian and they had already left, although they finally couldn't give up, but now they are probably safe.

Back at the inn, it was like a world away. The antique and woody building is still there, but the kind and enthusiastic aunt is no longer there. Yang Xiaowu and Chen Keyi looked at these and looked at each other sadly. Chen Keyi actually didn't have anything, only a few clothes and some personal items, and a very delicate transparent glass bottle. She said that it didn't matter if anything else was going on, but the glass bottle couldn't be left behind.

Yang Xiaowu picked up the glass bottle casually, and said with a smile while playing with it: "Isn't it just a glass bottle?

Chen Keyi solemnly took the glass bottle, put it away, and said, "Don't break it for me." It's not that it's important, it's just that what's inside is important. ”

Hearing Chen Keyi say this, Yang Xiaowu's curiosity also came up, and said, "What is loaded? But why can't I see anything? Could it be that there is something wrong with my eyes?"

"Do you have a problem with your eyes, I don't know. It's just that the contents of this glass bottle are transparent and invisible, and they contain the ghosts I caught this time when I went down the mountain. Every time I go down the mountain, I will catch the wandering ghosts I meet and put them in this bottle, and then bring them back to the mountain to surpass them. ”

"You're quite kind, but you put them in this glass bottle, aren't you afraid that they'll run away?"

"Don't worry, this bottle has been spelled by me, and ghosts can't escape. ”

Yang Xiaowu and Chen Keyi said as they walked downstairs. At this time, there was a knock on the door, Yang Xiaowu thought it was a tourist staying at the hotel, and was about to open the door, but he heard a girl's voice ringing: "Excuse me, is anyone there? Miss Chen Keyi lives here?" Listening to this voice, although it is not as good as Ke Yiying's voice and swallow language, it is also ear-catching, and the girl should not be very old. Yang Xiaowu turned his head to look at Chen Keyi to see what she meant.

Chen Keyi nodded and said, "Open the door." ”

Yang Xiaowu called the door and saw a girl, the girl had big eyes and a smile on her face, looking innocent and innocent, her small lips were slightly upturned, and a beauty mole on the corner of her mouth was even more delicate and cute.

The girl walked in, looked at Yang Xiaowu and the others curiously, walked up to Chen Keyi, and said, "You are Miss Chen Keyi, right? Hello, my name is Zhang Yuxin, and I am here to apprentice!"

Chen Keyi was stunned for a moment, and didn't seem to react yet, and said: "There are a lot of people who look for me to catch ghosts on weekdays, but there are never those who want to find me to apprentice." All right. Tell me, why do you want to worship me as a teacher?"

The girl's smiling face suddenly became gloomy, with tears in her eyes, and said, "When I was five years old, my mother fell ill and died, leaving me with my father and grandmother. Later, my father made money in the timber business, so he gave me a stepmother. My stepmother was kind to me at first, but since I had a younger brother, they only had my younger brother in their eyes, and only my father remembered me and was good to me. But...... But now that my father was killed by a ghost, my stepmother ignored my life and death, took my father's money, and ran away with other men. My grandma...... My grandmother had a heart attack, and her life was saved by taking medicine. Now that my dad has passed away, my grandmother doesn't take medicine anymore and cries all day long, but as a result, she is overly sad and goes with my dad. I hate my stepmother, she's so heartless. But I hate those harmful ghosts even more, if it weren't for those ghosts, I wouldn't have lost my father, let alone a home. So, Miss Keyi, I want to learn ghost hunting from you as a teacher. ”

Yang Xiaowu looked at the girl, the more he looked at it, the more he felt as if he had seen it somewhere, and heard her surname Zhang, and her father was in the timber business again, or was recently killed by a ghost, he couldn't help but doubt in his heart, so he asked: "Is your father Mr. Zhang who is in the timber business in Fenghuang County?"

Zhang Yuxin heard Yang Xiaowu ask her, lowered her head, two lines of tears cut down from the corners of her eyes, and hummed in a low voice.

Yang Xiaowu listened to her and knew that what she said was the truth, so he couldn't help but feel compassion, and was about to help persuade Chen Keyi, but heard Chen Keyi already say: "Catching ghosts is not so simple. In our line of work, we don't know what will happen tomorrow today, and we can't say that one day our lives will not be guaranteed......"

Zhang Yuxin didn't wait for Keyi to finish speaking, and had already rushed to say: "I can do it, don't worry, I will definitely do it." ”

Chen Keyi shook his head and said, "Your motives for apprenticeship are not pure, and you have hatred on your body. I can't take you, lest I hurt you when the time comes. Besides, I don't plan to take in apprentices. ”

Zhang Yuxin raised her head, didn't speak, just wiped the tears on her face, smiled reluctantly, and said, "I know it may be difficult for you to accept me as an apprentice, but can you let me follow you and let me do something for you, laundry, cooking, cleaning, I can do anything." And I've practiced martial arts, I'm good at kung fu, and I can help in case of danger. ”

Chen Keyi seemed to be embarrassed and said, "Why are you doing this? At your age, you could have a great future." ”

Zhang Yuxin lowered her head, as if she was very careful and said: "I think that one day, you will be moved by my sincerity and then take me as an apprentice." Besides, is there really a great future? My home is gone, and I don't have any relatives in this world. ”

Yang Xiaowu guessed Zhang Yuxin's thoughts, but he didn't expect her to say it so bluntly. What a cheerful girl! Yang Xiaowu looked at Chen Keyi, hoping that she could keep Zhang Yuxin by her side.

Chen Keyi looked at Yang Xiaowu, seemed to understand what he meant, and said, "That's it, you go up the mountain with me first, and then make plans when I see the master and ask him what the old man means." ”

When Zhang Yuxin heard Ke Yi's words, her face immediately filled with a smile, and she hurriedly thanked her and called Master. Ke Yi shook her head and said, "Master can't always shout, you should call me Sister Ke Yi." ”

Not long after Zhang Yuxin came, the sword slave also packed up and went downstairs. So, Yang Xiaowu and his party of four walked towards Wuling Mountain. On the way, Chen Keyi introduced Yang Xiaowu and Sword Slave to Zhang Yuxin respectively, but did not tell Zhang Yuxin the identity of Yang Xiaowu's zombie.

They walked very slowly along the way, although Chen Keyi and Jian Nu lived in the mountains for a long time, but Yang Xiaowu and Zhang Yuxin rarely climbed back to the mountain, not to mention that they were in a hurry, plus Chen Keyi was injured, although he gradually recovered, but after all, he was still a little weak.

Chen Keyi saw that Yang Xiaowu came back to Wuling Mountain for the first time, so he took the initiative to act as a guide and introduced Wuling Mountain to Yang Xiaowu. Chen Keyi told Yang Xiaowu that Wuling Mountain is located at the junction of the four provinces and cities of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou, and is the eastern extension of the Yunwu Mountain on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The altitude of Wuling Mountain is about 1,000 meters, and most of the peaks maintain a certain flat surface, so that the mountain form presents the characteristics of flat top, steep slope and deep valley. So here is different from other places, the more you climb to the top of the mountain, the easier the road becomes.

"Brother Yang, do you feel weird?" Zhang Yuxin tiptoed to Yang Xiaowu's side and whispered.

Yang Xiaowu nodded, in fact, since they went up to Wuling Mountain, Yang Xiaowu has always had this strange feeling.

Chen Keyi looked at them and said, "It's about to be at the top of the mountain, let's rest first." ”

Yang Xiaowu heard Chen Keyi say this, and knew that she also felt abnormal. Yang Xiaowu helped Ke Yi to the top of the mountain and asked her in a low voice, "Do you feel anything?"

Chen Keyi shook her head and said, "Although I didn't feel the evil aura, like Yu Xin, I also felt weird, it seemed that someone was following us. ”

As soon as she reached the top of the mountain, Chen Keyi began to meditate. Although Zhang Yuxin was a little scared in her heart, she thought of so many people and Chen Keyi, who was known as the first female heavenly master in Xiangxi, so she quickly didn't take it to heart. Zhang Yuxin is an idle character, she saw that Chen Keyi was meditating, it was inconvenient to disturb, and Yang Xiaowu looked like a living person, so she kept talking to the sword slave. The sword slave paid attention to her at first, but she couldn't say why, and Zhang Yuxin didn't bother to say it.

Yang Xiaowu was afraid that he would reveal his zombie identity during the conversation, so he stayed away from Zhang Yuxin. He looked at the bright moon in the sky, and was about to find a place to lie down, but he heard Chen Keyi shouting, "Who is it? Come out quickly!"

"It is worthy of being the most prestigious celestial master in Xiangxi, I have used my mana to hide my corpse qi, and I didn't expect it to be detected by you. But he saw Lei Batian come out of the darkness and said, "I'm curious, can you tell me how you knew that I was following you?"

"You don't need to know that. However, I really didn't expect that a zombie of your identity would do things in such a roundabout way. Chen Keyi took two steps and stood in front of Zhang Yuxin, thinking that she was worried that Lei Batian would break out, and Zhang Yuxin couldn't parry.

"Thank you for the compliment, and before I explain my intentions, let me tell you something else. I've used some methods to find out what you know. Chen Keyi, the most prestigious celestial master in Xiangxi, in addition to the method of catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, the art of Qimen Dunjia, is actually proficient in astrology, which is really incredible. To be able to become an astrologer, it is not only about talent, but also about bloodline. Moreover, I am actually very curious about how a girl could choose a career as a celestial master. Lei Batian said, looked at Yang Xiaowu again, and said, "Yang Xiaowu, the Purple Zombie clan, the eldest brother was killed by Fei Zombie, and because he absorbed the evil spirit, he actually upgraded from the second generation of zombies to the first generation. But alas, you have been in a mess for more than a thousand years, you don't suck human blood, you don't practice spells, you don't even know about zombies, even if you have mana comparable to mine now, you can't use it. I always had a strange feeling that there should be some kind of connection between us. But I'm not in a hurry to know that the truth is always unconcealable, and sooner or later it will surface. ”

Hearing Lei Batian's words, Yang Xiaowu couldn't help but be stunned, how could he know about my own affairs, and even knew about his own absorption of evil spirits? Isn't this matter only known to him and Chen Keyi, Chen Keyi naturally won't say it, and it is even more impossible for him to say it himself, it really makes people unable to think about it. Chen Keyi looked at Yang Xiaowu, and it seemed that she couldn't understand either. Zhang Yuxin Yuxin glanced at Yang Xiaowu, with a little doubt in her eyes, and more surprise, she probably didn't expect Yang Xiaowu to be a zombie.

Lei Batian looked at Yang Xiaowu, suddenly his eyes showed a fierce light, with a bit of fierceness in his eyes, mixed with a bit of mockery, after a long time, he turned his head, looked at the sword slave, and said: "The sword slave, since he was a child, has no father and no mother, grew up in the deep mountains and forests, has a cruel and ruthless personality, was rescued back to the mountain by Miss Chen Keyi, and was granted the technique of driving out corpses, and only obeyed Chen Keyi's orders. ”

Lei Batian walked up to Zhang Yuxin, nodded, and said, "Zhang Yuxin, who lost his mother since he was a child, depends on his father for his life. He is very interested in Chinese kung fu, and he is extremely talented, visiting famous teachers, and finally becoming a steel boxing master. I have a good impression of you. I have a subordinate, who is also a girl, very good at jujiquan, not only kung fu, but also in terms of personality, which should be very compatible with you, and they are all beautiful girls. However, it's a pity that you're just an ordinary person, in fact, sometimes I often wonder if humans and zombies will have a day of harmonious coexistence......"